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Best to right the Liverpool game off, and think about other games we may have a chance of getting a point here and there from. We’ll be relying on other results for our outcome come the end of the season. Fingers crossed.

I am assuming we’ll lose, hopefully by no more than a single goal though.

But there’s no doubt we can win, and I’ll believe it until proven otherwise over the course of the match. No doubt we’ll be tight and compact, no doubt the players will be up for it. Whether that’ll prove to be enough I don’t know but I’m looking forward to the game.

If we lose it’s not a game I’ve factored us getting any points from anyway. I just don’t want, or expect, a battering.

More generally, and far more positively, I can’t see any way that we won’t pick up at least 11 more points.

We have had sooooo many disappointing draws, and too few lucky wins, more of those draws will turn to wins in the run-in than into losses. We’re an improved team to the first half of the season (albeit by the slimmest of margins). And Rafa has a knack of finishing well.

Why should we WRITE it off? Good job we didn’t have that attitude v Manu.

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Yes Lazaar was a poor buy but he’s a 1.5M poor buy, unlike a 54M Lacazette or a 30M Sissoko for example. Imagine Rafa having 54M to spend on one player. Every manager buys a dud or 3 in their career and at least Lazaar and Sels were very cheap in the scheme of things, ie Everton pay 30M for Pickford.

I hope Beardo decides to go now with a bit of dignity. This Dawson guy sounds quite impressive and maybe players like Sangare and Ben M’Hanni (if he stays) could thrive.

Well and truly trapped in the house today. 🙁 Currently driving a Captur and discovered it doesn’t do snow – period. Bloody useless in fact. Back to the Clio next time I think if I stick to Renault. Reckon we can shock Klopp at the weekend and nick a point. They’ll be as confident as Manure were and we all know how that ended. They are vulnerable at the back after all. Seems we play better against better teams for periods, so we need to capitalise during those spells. Not writing it off anyway.

Perhaps I phrased that wrong, best not to expect to much from the Liverpool game is more appropriate! But you never know as proven by the man u game. Unfortunately I do think we’ll be relying on other results for our outcome though. Loved to be proven wrong. It’s our inconsistent play that concerns me, it can change during a game as well as from game to game.

Interesting jane. All low-scoring draws. Definitely do-able for a point if we’re on it for 90 mins, and if we could repeat the intensity and concentration we showed against the red mancs we could even nick all three.

But any point will be a bonus, let’s be honest. Toon kk’s right, we can’t expect a result, but we can expect the players to give it a damn good go.

And any team going for glory or survival relies on other results as well as on its own. I’m certain ours will be better than at least 3 other teams, probably more.

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rotunda at 7 ben dawson is one of three nufc coaches who have the highest grade of coaching cert and can manage any team in europe . pb who he was assisting or working alongside is halfway throgh a coaching course at least one grade beneath that. having watched nufc reserves and u 18s at every opportunity highlights etc my personal opinion is that el mahanni is not good enough and victor fernandez is a far better prospect

Jane, seriously, can’t even move the bloody thing. There’s zero grip. I would bounce right down the street, off every other car parked up. Found out when we had two centimetres of snow last month. Downright dangerous. Not just me either apparantly. Certainly not prepared to risk even trying from past experience. These blizzards are a convincing argument not to go out. Bad forecast too. Bugger.

Ola hombres. We’re preparing for another all out effort on Saturday. I’m seeing total commitment. I’m seeing determination. I’m seeing giant knackers! We’ll fight them in the trenches. We’ll fight them in the pubs. We’ll fight them in wor living rooms! Huzzah!!!!!!!!

I was just in Beak World buying seed for my condors when I happened to run into Markaccus. He says we are far better than people think. He also claims we have a secret weapon in wor Hoser Loo. That he’s been training and working hard and has developed a shot that bounces off both his legs twice before landing in the onion bag. We need some of that lads. Bring back the Hoser!!!!

The goal difference is precious!!!! Think of it as gold! Solid gold lads!!! Defend, defend, defend! Work, work, work!!!! Pull out wor best scrambly bits!!!! We can do it! We have the ability to hold that score down lads! Beautiful…..

How’s it going Geordie Two? You Canadians must think we’re a load of Drama Queens over here allowing everything to be disrupted by a bit of snow. Particularly when you only have two seasons over there winter and July.

Well said bettys mate. We just had a foot of snow in one day over here and you don’t see us wuzzling into wor beers! No! We went out there and shoveled in wor thongs and then drove through horrific snowdrifts and then went out for a session of snow shoeing and then we did it all over again. Now that’s manliness mate!

Just spoke with my Geordie mate Keith down at the curling club. He doesn’t even bother with a thong! He just struts oot into the snow straight from the shower and clears it with his bare hands! Unbelievable manliness over here you lot….

Markaccus also says we’re just lying low. Hiding in the weeds. It’s all part of the Ashley cunning plan. Once people have written us off we’ll roar! We’ll destroy clubs with wor goal difference! Amazing……

No I like my Earth flat Tsunki. My position on aliens is that they are here and living among us…… in fact while I was in your hall closet I saw some very suspicious goings on. Why were you speaking into your shoe? Who were those tall beings with 3 legs that came over one night? Hmmmm…..

I can offer some driving in snow advice. Put a couple of bags of sand in your boot and reduce your tyre pressure for better traction. Put a hot water bottle on the drivers seat before jumping in to prevent screaming when your buttocks meet that cold vinyl or leather.

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